Small Ball Pickup Poll

[Astronouth7303]

Can anyone give general ideas of what they're doing? Specifacally, how do you plan to pick up the 20-30 small balls? (For other, please vote anyway)

[matt111]

one word: hopper

[Astronouth7303]

My thought was take a series of rollers to a hopper then dump it (Know Rokenbok? http://www.rokenbok.com/catalog/pd_rcv_sweeper.html).

[shyra1353]

one word: hopper
what do you mean by hopper? because on our team, during our design phase, hopper meant a few different things.


we are using a conveyer belt

[matt111]

yea its a conveyor belt with a place to store. i am curious to how many balls u could get at once

[Astronouth7303]

Well, the balls' Diameter is 13", the vaolume of the sphere is ~1150.3465 cube" (4/3*pi*r^3), the cube containing the ball (length=13") has a volume of 2197 cube". You find the volume of you container and divide by either number. The first will be high, the second will be low.

[matt111]

i didnt mean the actual number :) just an estimate based on ur teams design.

[Jeff Waegelin]

I moved this thread from "Programming" to "Technical Discussion" in case anybody was confused.

[Rhs953]

WEll if we had a drive frame.........

[Tom Bottiglieri]

pinball is fun.... hmmmm now i bet ur asking what that can mean

[Solace]

for all those people out there that voted for a plow, don't you forsee a small problem when your robot wants to turn/stop/whatever and the balls don't?

[jonathan lall]

one word: hopper By 'hopper' do you mean you will pick them up like a tennis ball hopper? That's an interesting idea...

[matt111]

ive been advised not to turn this into a discussion so ill post a new thread in the technical section. i felt i had to tell what my "other" was from the poll sry.